Hey thats great! Both me and my wife shot cows this year too (bull tags are impossible to draw), lots of fun and very challenging at times. You have pictures of it? Would love to see it.

One thing though, dont shoot the "lead" cow ... those are the toughest old bittys in a herd. Elk are fairly habitual, going where the leader goes... once the leader dies the rest of'em get confused until someone new takes over and a whole new set of habits emerge. Good meat though

Great to hear you got your first Elk! Also good to hear your wife likes hunting.

Just remember she might decide one or two of your guns are "hers" from now on so she can hunt, so this is a good time to start saving for a new gun or 2.

She helped you field dress it and quarter it too! Most guys (nevermind the girls who for the most part all claim the blood makes them feel sick) I know don't want to do that to game hense why I end up doing it most of the time!

Dimitri

_________________A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, ten thousand paths, with no people's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, fishing alone in the cold river snow.

Vince,
Some people do take the meat home with them, but some of us take it to a meat processor to have them turn it into a variety of sausages, burger and steaks. It costs extra of course but it is worth it to have the meat made up right.

The area I hunted actually had three companies that had hauled in 40 foot trailer with a cooler to store the animals after skinning/cutting.

The only freezers you see in the bush out here are the meat companies collecting kangaroo carcasses for either the pet food industry or export.

Cheers, Vince

We had a semi-truck tip over in a canyon 2 years ago. It was unmarked and they had to unload it before they could tip it upright. Well they opened it and it was full of Kangaroo meat... unmarked. FDA got mighty interested and tracked down that the truck was headed for Burger King...! LOL!

Anyway back on subject Elk are just to freaking large for me to concider processing myself. Mine this year went around 500lbs, my wifes broke 600 (I told her after dont shoot the big old ones :)). We take ours to a local butcher that does a first class job. I get it made mostly into steaks with 4 or 5 roasts, the remaining meat goes into burger but I pay an extra $6 and they grind beef suiet into it to give it added flavor. It makes for amazing burgers.

Good for you! I am glad to see that somebody can hunt this year. It seems that everyone I know is down for one reason or another. I'm out at least this year with my back essentially broken in three places. At the tailbone I have a fractured vertabrea and bulged disc, in the middle of my back I have a compressed disc fracture that happened years ago and is more or less as good as it will get, and the top vertabrea of my back - bottom of the neck I have another compressed disc and bulged disc. I am on pain meds and limited in my physical activities - been like this for a year and a half. It is good to hear that others are doing some good out there.

Gidday Bushy. Haven't heard of this one mate, although I take stories like this with a grain of salt. I haven't met a reporter yet who will allow the truth to get in the way of a good story.

Having said that....roo meat is nice to eat and is exported for human consumption. However, it MUST have been processed for human consumption. The pet food industry standards are a little lower than those for us human beans.

Gidday Bushy. Haven't heard of this one mate, although I take stories like this with a grain of salt. I haven't met a reporter yet who will allow the truth to get in the way of a good story.

Having said that....roo meat is nice to eat and is exported for human consumption. However, it MUST have been processed for human consumption. The pet food industry standards are a little lower than those for us human beans.

Gidday Bushy. Haven't heard of this one mate, although I take stories like this with a grain of salt. I haven't met a reporter yet who will allow the truth to get in the way of a good story.

Having said that....roo meat is nice to eat and is exported for human consumption. However, it MUST have been processed for human consumption. The pet food industry standards are a little lower than those for us human beans.

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